Preface to Plato
By: Eric A. Havelock.
Contributors: Frye, Northrop.
Edition: Universal library ed.
Series: A history of the Greek mind
Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap
Published: 1967
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 328
Subjects: Plato; Philosophy, Ancient; Greek poetry -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes indexes.

Bibliography: p. 312-315.

Victoria University Library has Northrop Frye's copy with his annotations.
Table of contents: title: Plato on poetry -- Mimesis -- Poetry as preserved communication -- The Homeric encyclopedia -- Epic as record versus epic as narrative -- Hesiod on poetry -- The oral sources of the Hellenic intelligence -- The Homeric state of mind -- The psychology of the poetic performance -- The content and quality of the poetised statement -- Psyche or the separation of the knower from the known -- The recognition of the known as object -- Poetry as opinion -- The origin of the theory of forms -- ‘The supreme music is philosophy’.